Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: Krzysztof Duleba Subject: Re: mc 4.6.1 - background not working Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 15:29:42 +0200 Lines: 33 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-2; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) In-Reply-To: X-IsSubscribed: yes Pavel Tsekov wrote: >>Why is background disabled? And why ncurses instead of S-Lang? > > Because using the subshell leaves stale subshell processes and each > time I start to debug this problem I get nowhere due to lack of time. I didn't notice this problem. Are you sure it's still there? > The problem is pretty complex. Hopefully I'll find the time to find a > solution for it. > And btw you are wrong - the MC package has subshell > support but it is disabled by default. Try `mc --help' . Really? My mc configured with --prefix=/usr doesn't agree with that and subshell works. $ mc --version GNU Midnight Commander 4.6.1 Virtual File System: tarfs, extfs, cpiofs, ftpfs, fish With builtin Editor Using included S-Lang library with terminfo database With subshell support as default With support for background operations With mouse support on xterm With support for X11 events With internationalization support > Why do you think slang should be used instead of ncurses ? Just curious. Krzysztof Duleba -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/